A Must-Read for Pinoy Furparents on Dry Cat Food Brands

What we might think healthy might not be really healthy for our furbabies.

Every cat owners wants their best for their furbabies especially when it comes to the food they eat. In the Philippines, there are a lot of variety of cat food brands that you can choose from but not all of them are good for an everyday food for your cats.

Wet cat food are better than dry cat foods, which has more fillers than real fish or meat. However, wet cat food is more expensive, but I hope all all cat owners will be more aware that not all cat food a good for cats especially for cats with pure breeds because they are not like puspins that are mixbreed and hybrid. I made a list based on a veterinarian’s advice of the cat food brands and if the brand you want to buy is not included in the list, I also made a criteria that you need to consider when when buying a cat fry food.

Brands Recommended by the Vet These brands are well trusted and healthy for your cats and some of them are organic.

1. KitCat

2. Meowmix

3. Orijen

4. Reflex

5. Royal Canin

6. Science Diet

7. SmartHeart

Not Recommendable Brands These are some of the local brands that is cheaper but daily intake of this can cause UTI, Kidney Stones, and/or other Urinary Tract diseases to your cats. To avoid vet bills, I would not recommend these brand for to be their DAILY usual diet, it’s okay to feed them seldom times with these brands.

1. Princess

2. Special Cat Food

3. Whiskas

4. IAMS

So-so Brands These are brands that you can give to your cat, they are fine but not better than the recommended brands.

1. Cuties Cat

2. Fancy Feast

3. Frieskies

4. Special Cat Urinary

Organic Brands Organic brands lacks protein (which is the primary nutrient that cat needs) so it is best mixed with a dry cat food brand that has high in protein for cats. For my cat, I buy and mix Powercat and Cuties together.

1. Aozi

2. Monello

3. Nutram

4. Organix

5. Powercat

What to Avoid in the 5 Main Ingredients of Dry Cat Food Always check the label of the cat food you are buying and when the following conditions is present in the said ingredients, don’t consider buying it anymore.

1. By-products which is just fillers

2. Proteins from corn (“corn meal”, “corn gluten meal”)

3. Proteins from soy (“soybean meal”, “soy flour”, “soy meal”)

4. Grains (wheat, white rice) are high in carbs and gluten

5. Rye is harsh to digest and has gluten

6. When 3 of the first 5 ingredients are grains

7. Potatoes are high-glycemic which causes peaks in blood sugar, sweet potato is an exception

8. Tapioca is high-glycemic

9. Artificial preservatives and colorants

10. Menadione Sodium Bisulfate or “Menadione” is a synthetic source of vitamin K that is toxic for pets.